Even Though Benchmarks Are Silly, the LG G2’s Still Crush

While we don’t tend to care about benchmarks as much as we used to, we figured we would at least do a couple to give you a rough idea of what to expect performance wise from the LG G2. As you can see from the two I took above, the results are pretty much off the charts, given that the device is running the new Snapdragon 800 processor clocked at 2.3GHz, has 2GB of RAM and also features that GRAM technology that LG bragged about.

The benchmarks I ran were AnTuTu and Quadrant, two of the most commonly used tests to pit phones against each other. With a five star rating from AnTuTu and the largest Quadrant score I have probably ever seen, it’s a safe bet that the G2 can perform under pressure.

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Kevin

is there a reason why it’s going up against the HTC One X and Motorola Atrix 4G and not something that was released in at least the past year let alone current flagships?

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No im just dont know why he said the highest scores hes ever seen in the story

Fred

Maybe because it is the highest score he has seen…..unless you think he has seen your phone.

rahul

G2 runs 32K without overclocking . If you play a game then run benchmark tool , certainly values gets lower ( in any phone )

If you over clock G2 , you will certainly get dream figures ….

RoadsterHD1

Question is what’s the limit to be able to handle the pressure of the memory and processor intensive apps. Is 2 cores enough or do we need 4? Is 1 GB of RAM enough or do we need 2GBs. Is 1.2GHz enough or do we need 2.26GHz. Lets look into that…. Anybody have any test results? Opinions?

Don’t see the problem….cash for doing a review? Didn’t ask them to lie in the review….in the end, paying for advertisement.

rahul

it seems LG offered less to techcrunch .. Apple or samsung may be owning it . Good to see LG put some money in marketing . Optimus G , G Pro , L9 didnt got the reviewers attention what it deserves.

S3 vs optimus G
Grand vs L9
S4 vs GPro

now atleast they should market G2 to compete with note3

RoadsterHD1

Tim benchmarks are not that silly. It gives us an idea on how the phone will perform when in heavy use and in apps like Google Earth really weigh heavily on your device’s processor and RAM. For instance let’s take the OG Droid and compare it to the LG G2, the one that handles Google earth better is the one with higher AnTuTu and quadrant scores. Right?

Jason B

Google Earth is hardware accelerated via OpenGL ES, so it’s using the GPU more than the CPU.

The OG Droid would be limited by its GPU and even memory bandwidth. However, if you put the G2’s Adreno 330 in the Droid paired to the old TI OMAP, it’d be CPU limited (FPS will cap out as the CPU can’t feed the GPU fast enough). That’s not to say you wouldn’t see a substantial increase in performance. The peak performance would just be limited by the slow CPU and RAM.

So, the CPU needs to be strong enough, but the GPU definitely needs the horsepower more. And since the RAM is shared between the two, the bandwidth needs to be there for both.

RoadsterHD1

Well put and you’re right, I was just trying to make a point and used extremes as a example. Evenso, i have been taught about benchmarks and what they really mean by another member of this wonderful community and as a result am feeling better in my choice on buying the new Droid MAXX.

My threshold for lag. Seriously, if this thing lags in any way, shape or form, it will be 100% unacceptable and further prove why optimization and not specs are more important.

starnovsky

Lag is not necessary caused by CPU underperformance. In many cases it could be a result of UI process waiting on something. So lag is a very complex issue and it’s usually takes optimizing all components and full software stack together to fix it, not just slapping on a super fast CPU.

trwb

things running in virtual memory non-natively can cause lag too, which is an issue the Android OS has had since day one.

Brandon Golway

Yep, I feel that Dalvik is the one thing truly holding back Android since all the apps are run in a Java VM.

starnovsky

I’m pretty sure that all Java byte-code is compiled into native on the fly since 2.2.

Brandon Golway

Ah, but still it’s an extra step that it has to go through.

DainLaguna

So…basically you agree with me then? Optimization is where its at and specs aren’t the end all be all to performance?

I stand corrected and humbled. Thanks for the article. You have helped me make my choice for my next Smartphone.
Thanks,

RoadsterHD1

What would you suggest?

schlanz

Benchmarks are hardly “silly”. It’s “silly” to assume today’s processing power is all we’ll ever need.

Even my GN2 gets sluggish when downloading files, playing music, and web browsing simultaneously. I’d love to have a powerful enough device to push through all that multi-tasking with ease.

Ben

Since benchmarks often have no bearing on a real-world scenario, and also remembering what Samsung was caught with just last week, benchmarks are way less valuable than “how does the device feel?”

schlanz

I see your point, and agree that real world use and experience is more valuable than benchmarks but that doesn’t mean they are silly. It shows potential more than anything else, and that still means something especially when there isn’t enough first hand experience out there.

Ben

When companies do things for specific benchmarks, whether it’s kernel optimizations, or the nonsense Samsung pulled with higher CPU and GPU clocks, the benchmarks become useless at best, and outright misleading at worst.

Brandon Golway

They’re not really misleading/useless because it IS possible to achieve those scores, it’s not like they photoshopped the results. All the did is OC the cores.

Jason B

They OC’d the GPU and locked the CPU cores at the max frequency and activated all cores (regardless of CPU usage).

So, they disabled all of the power saving features that are in all mobile smartphone SoCs and OC’d the GPU. That is misleading because the SoC doesn’t operate like that normally. It power saves often and throttles up/down (maximum clocks on all cores would only be seen if you were doing something VERY intensive).

If you ran your phone the way Samsung benchmarks, you’d have a dead battery in 4-6 hours. Maybe less. That’s not relative to the real world. It really serves no purpose other than to show the absolute potential of the phone without regard to battery life.

Brandon Golway

Once again I don’t see the problem with that, they’re not really lying about anything because with a little tweaking the phone CAN do that. Most people don’t care about the these things like we do, they want great battery life. Also, I DO run my phone like that when I’m at home (OC’d to 2 GHz max/min, all cores activated when I do anything, GPU at 545 MHz, etc..). Also do you honestly believe that every advertiser is telling you the absolute truth about their products? If you do, you’re extremely naive because they lie to us all the time.

Brandon Golway

Benchmarks are just a metric for comparing one device to another, how else would you do it, if not for benchmarks? Anyone can say “My Galaxy Nexus with XYZ ROM overclocked to 1.5 GHz FEELS faster than my friends Galaxy S4!” but they have no way to prove this, benchmarks at least give someone without physical access to the phones and idea of how fast it is compared to another device.

Ben

When phone manufacturers spend time optimizing for specific benchmarks, those benchmarks become totally worthless. Antutu, Quadrant, 3DMark, and so on. Your example of the Galaxy S4 is perfect, because Samsung just got nailed for locking the CPU at the highest speed while benchmarks run, and it’s specifically looking for those benchmarks.

Brandon Golway

Of course the results are going to be slightly skewed when they come from the manufacturer because they want you to buy their device over the competition’s. End-users have no such motive.

chaoslimits

Benchmarks aren’t “silly”. They should be taken with a (large) grain of salt and used as background info. Leave it to the users to make those decisions.

Nicholas DiChiara

Crushes……1-2yr old devices? lol

Daeshaun Griffiths

i’d love to see moto get their x8 to work on this. MmmmMmm i smell cookies.

Exactly. I am not even referring to whatever they put it up against in the app.

mustbepbs

No!

SmokeNMirrors

Can you see if it has MHL / display mirroring? Also heard it had USB host mode, be interested to have that confirmed too. TIA

Justtyn Hutcheson

GFx Bench? Sunspider?

Edit: And that’s a ridiculous number of icons on the notification bar by the way. Wow.

aznmode1

Can you test GFX benchmark Trex screen on

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Not quite.

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The Quadrant app needs to be updated. It’s ridiculous to be benchmarking against 2011 phones.

joejoe5709

This was my thought. I had to do a double take on the Samsung Nexus S. My brain thought maybe it said Nexus5! Ha!

geedee82

At first I thought it said Samsung Nexus 5 like wtf!

michael arazan

Surprised the original Nintendo,. Atari, and Macontash 2 wasn’t included in the bench marks, meh

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